I've created this little thread here, to host my gaming failures. Notice: Some of the videos may be laggy, my PC isn't the happiest when it comes to recording. Well, the earliest videos are gonna be laggy. Most of the new ones won't.

Updates

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First video here is Amnesia, which my cousin, Drago, and my sibling listened to me play. (We did steam voice chat, with me the only one talking.)

Part 2 has been added, no steam overlay this time.

Added my HL2 LP, my Blocks that Matter LP, and my Minecraft LP. *Blocks that Matter is the one that has basically no lag* BTW, those were recorded before I started using Fraps. Amnesia Part 2 is when I started using Fraps.

Amnesia Part 3 has been fixed, and my Portal 2 LP, my Audiosurf videos, and my hilarious attempts at MC adventure maps have been added.

Added Assassin's Creed video.

Videos

Assassin's Creed

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Part 1

Amnesia

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Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Half-Life 2

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Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Blocks That Matter

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Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Minecraft

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Part 1

Part 2

Portal 2

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Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Audiosurf

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Ensare: Cascading Doom Pony

Ensare: Damage

Nero: Doomsday

Minecraft Adventure Maps

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Towers of Aesmora Beta Video 1

Towers of Aesmora Beta Video 2

ParkourCraft

Last edited by Talvox on Mon Oct 27, 2014 12:46 am; edited 22 times in total

What I just watched was fifteen minutes of you pausing the game and opening the Steam overlay, interspersed with three minutes of laggy gameplay footage with a visible window border and Steam beeping in the background every five seconds.

...Actually that's a lie: I skipped through most of it when I noticed the pattern.

I have to agree with what Eps and Delta are suggesting here; while it was great fun to be there and listen to you play, the recording of you playing just doesn't live up. The steam noises were distracting and the chatlog was obtrusive. I think a solution would be to pick one side or the other. Either record yourself playing the game in offline mode (attempting to take out the background noise like Eps said), or scrap the recording and have us just listen to you. You might find yourself switching to the steam overlay too much with the latter (as demonstrated by the video), so perhaps asking us not to say anything would keep you immersed in the game, providing us all with a better experience.

Also, for the love of Brennenburg, don't pause every time something moves. Half the fun is reacting to things as they happen, not as you decide to unpause the game then quickly pause it again.

@Delta, did you just, make a post with absolutely nothing positive in it?! @_@

Yes, I realized me pausing ever 5 seconds is a bit stupid, and that I spent waaay too much time in the Steam Overlay. I'll do mostly everything you guys suggested. I can't do anything about video lag, sadly. I've got everything on low, so, yeah.

I wasn't going to say anything mean about the video because I didn't watch most of it, but I can tell you this:

Watching you cut out to steam everytime you hear a noise makes you look like a wuss.People watch Let's Plays to see their reaction to things that happen ingame. That's usually what makes them fun to watch, and often hilarious.If you keep cutting to steam like that, we don't get to see your proper reaction, thus diminishing the point of the video.

For proof of concept, see this video:

Quite funny, yes? The player is obviously terrified, however he presses on, which usually ends up in a funny situation for us.Also, playing on does sometimes lead to monents where things happen coincidentally, which makes the video even more interesting. (See the part about his friend finding a bag of Milky Ways)

Also reguarding to your comment about video lag, I dunno about you guys, but I'm not usually one to watch laggy let's plays, so you may want to fix that...

Episode 2 is live; a slight bit of lag, but a lot less than in the last video. Plus no steam overlay; I disabled all of the steam stuff that might make me not get immersed. But I still had people listening. Jad(Delta) got to hear me get absolutely scared.

I completely and utterly chickened out while playing. I will, however, do it eventually. (By the time I'm ready to play it, Slender: Source may be out. So I'll play it with Jad and Drago. Maybe.) For those who want the Slender: Source page, this is it.